>The FCC is defunct.

Probably should add some context. Some bad SCOTUS rulings basically handed nearly all text message regulation to the telecom companies themselves (through the CTIA). They don't really care too much about spam if you pay them enough to do it and don't get extremely high reporting rates (especially with short codes, they will filter/blacklist toll free numbers and local numbers if you hammer carriers enough).

DNC list has been successful for me.

  > You can play wack-a-mole with uBlock, but it's wack-a-mole, and poor bandaid over our government agencies not doing the job

I'm mad too, but at least wack a mole is better than nothing. You're right, you'll never get them all. But if I'm surrounded by flies I'd rather be surrounded be a dozen than a thousand. Making things binary isn't helping